1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOLRNALo 



771 



UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' UNION. 



Report of the 29th Annual ConveutloH Held at 

 Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 13-15, 1898. 



DR. A. B. MASON, SEC. 



SECOND DAY— Afternoon Session. 



[.Continued irom page 757.1 



SELECTING TIME AND PLACE OF NEXT MEETING. 



" Wouldn't it be a good plan to have our next meeting in Phil- 

 adelphia, at the time of the next G. A. R. meeting ?" 



Dr. Mason — The constitution puts the time and place of 

 holding these meetings Into the hands of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



Dr. Miller — I move that we request the Executive Commit- 

 tee to appoint the next meeting in Philadelphia, during the G. 

 A. R. meeting. 



A letter was read, signed by Arthur Williams, Secretary 

 of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, inviting the Union to 

 hold its next meeting In Denver, Colo. Also, a letter was read 

 from the Citizens' Business League of Milwaukee, Wis., re- 

 questing that the next meeting of the Union be held in that 

 <;lty. 



Dr. Miller — I renew my motion that the Executive Com- 

 mittee be requested to appoint the place of the next meeting 

 at Philadelphia, during the next G. A. R. meeting. I may say 

 that I am more In favor of meeting at Denver than at any 

 other place in the Union. There are personal reasons for my 

 preference, but I don't believe It Is the best thing for the 

 Onion. I believe that the one thing to be considered above 

 all others in selecting our place of meeting is the question of 

 railroad rates. I believe that the best thing we can do is to 

 follow the Grand Army. We are then sure of getting low 

 rates, and we cannot be sure of them in any other way. 



Dr. Miller's motion was seconded by Dr. Mason. 



Mr. Stilson — We have no written invitation from the peo- 

 ple of Philadelphia to follow the Grand Army to that place. I 

 don't like the idea of following around as a side-show with 

 those big meetings ; therefore, I move to substitute the word 

 Denver instead of Philadelphia. I think with the aid of the 

 Denver Chamber of Commerce we will get as good rates as we 

 ■can East. 



Dr. Miller — May I ask if as good rates were secured this 

 year to the West as would have been secured to Cincinnati ? 



Dr. Mason — Not by a considerable. I do not see why we 

 -cannot hold the meeting in the East, and save bringing the 

 members over all the roads they would have to travel in com- 

 ing to the West. 



Mr. Rauchfuss — Wo have a lot of bee-keepers in the West. 



Dr. Mason — If you could see the letters I have received 

 from those who could not be here because the railroad rates 

 .prohibited It, you would think seriously of this matter of re- 

 duced rates. 



E. R. Root — They have a flourishing bee-keepers' associa- 

 tion in Philadelphia. I will guarantee that we will receive a 

 most royal welcome from those people. 



Mr. Danzenbaker — If this meeting had been held at Cin- 

 cinnati this year, we would have had a larger attendance 

 than we had last year at Buffalo. I do not prefer Philadel- 

 phia over Denver, but if the Grand Army was to meet here 

 next year, or at Denver, I would say go with it for the sake 

 of the reduced fare. If you want a large attendance, that is 

 the way to get it. 



Mr. Scott — I second Mr. Stilson's amendment. I will say 

 that I don't think any people in the United States can extend 

 a more hearty invitation thau the people of Denver. 



Dr. Miller — These Westerners are aggressive, and they 

 fight to the last minute to have things come their way ; but 

 if you simply wipe that all aside, they will take it in good part 

 and come around all right. I don't believe in giving way to 

 them on this matter — not an inch. If you follow the Grand 

 Army, you get the rates and get the attendance, and that Is 

 the whole story. 



Mr. Stilson — Since you went to Lincoln two years ago, I 

 have heard no kicking about your hotel rates and the accom- 

 modations you received there ; but ever since you went to Buf- 

 falo, following the Grand Army, I have heard every last man 

 telling what poor accommodations he had and what he had to 

 pay for them. 



Dr. Miller — We were never treated better than we were 

 In Lincoln ; but that Is not exactly the question now. 



Mr. Rauchfuss — So far as rates are concerned for Denver, 

 I could assure you low rates from the Missouri river ; but I 

 could not assure you anything beyond the Missouri. During 

 the first part of October we have our Mountain and Plains 

 festival, and from all Missouri river points we have very low 

 rates. 



E. R. Root — We have been in the West three times lately 

 — once at St. Joseph, once at Lincoln, and here ; and to go 

 next year to Denver It seems to me would hardly be fair to 

 the East. We haven't been in the extreme East since we were 

 in Washington, in 1892. It would be nothing more than fair 

 to show our appreciation of the Eastern bee-keepers. The 

 matter of rates is an important thing. We had a very large 

 convention, and a very good convention at Buffalo. 



A vote upon the amendment of Mr. Stilson to the original 

 motion, substituting Denver for Philadelphia, resulted : Yeas, 

 19 ; nays 15. 



Pres. York — We will now proceed to vote upon the origi- 

 nal motion, as amended. 



Dr. Miller — The question now Is on the original motion. 

 You will understand very clearly that wherever the meetings 

 are held, there will be a majority of the people of that region 

 in attendance. At one time we had a very earnest discussion 

 over the matter of the place of meeting. The matter was in 

 very much the same condition as it Is here, and I said at that 

 time, "If you want to kill the association, and have it become 

 merely a local organization, do Just what you are doing; but 

 if you want to have It continue as something that belongs to 

 the United States, then you must treat other localities fairly." 

 The majority of those who are here probably found it more 

 convenient to come here than they would have found it to go 

 somewhere else, but because you have the thing In your 

 hands. If you vote to have the meeting held in the West again 

 next year, you might as well kill it. As I said before, per- 

 sonally, I want to go to Denver, and I would give .$5 to have 

 It at Denver to every dollar I would give to have it at Phila- 

 delphia, but I don't believe that is the thing for the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Union to do. 



Dr. Mason — This very thing was had In view when the 

 constitution was gotten up. At that time we were partially 

 pledged to go to Lincoln. At Toronto we had voted to go 

 there, and the matter was left in the hands of the Executive 

 Committee. If you propose to tie their hands in this way, the 

 matter might just as well be taken out of their hands alto- 

 gether. I move that this whole matter be laid upon the table. 



The motion of Dr. Mason was seconded and carried. 



full-grown LARV-E in combs on TREES. 



" Is it a common occurrence to find nearly full-grown larvse 

 in combs formed on limbs of trees ?" 



A Member — No. 



Dr. Mason — I think it would depend on the limb — on its 

 location and size, etc. I have had a comb built on the bottom 

 of a hive, and it was filled with larvfe. 



Prof. Bruner — This was a case where small combs were 

 built on the limb of a tree out in the woods, and eggs had been 

 laid and the eggs were hatcht, and the larvas were nearly full 

 grown. 



GRANULATION OF HONEY IN THE BROOD CHAMBER. 



Mr. Whitcomb — Why does honey granulate in the brood- 

 chamber, and how can it be prevented ? 



Dr. Mason — Last fall I was prevented from attending to 

 my bees promptly, so that some of the surplus was left until 

 October, too late to extract. I set the frames away and tried 

 to extract some In the winter, but the honey had become so 

 much granulated by that time that the extracting wasn't a 

 success. Last spring the bees used a larger amount of honey 

 than usual, and I thought I would try the experiment of feed- 

 ing them this granulated honey. Out of about 300 pounds of 

 honey that was mostly granulated in brood-frames, they didn't 

 waste 5 pounds. Some way they used up all the granulated 

 honey. I can't tell you how. The granulation was rather 

 soft. Sometimes there would be a little that was exceedingly 

 hard in places, but aside from that they used it up. 



Prof. Lawrence Bruner, of the Nebraska State University, 

 Lincoln, Nebr., then delivered the following address, on 



